skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it so hard to believe that such models have developed a sense for how light propagates

Well, its not a matter or belief or otherwise. I'm a trained practitioner in statistics, AI, physics, and other areas and you can show trivially that you cannot learn light physics from pixel distributions.

Pixel distributions aren't stationary, and are caused by a very very large number of factors; likewise the physics of light for any given situation is subject to a large number of causes, all of them entirely absent from from the pixel distributions. This is a pretty trivial thing to show.

> have a sense of what Greg Rutkowski’s art style is

Well what these models show is that when you have PBs of image data and TBs of associated text data, you can relate words and images together usefully. In particular, you can use patterns of text tokens to sample from image distributions, and combine and vary these samples to produce novel images.

The patterns in text and images are caused by people speaking, taking photos, etc. Those patterns necessarily obtain in any generated output. As in, if you train an LLM/etc. on how to speak, using vast amounts of conversational data, it cannot do anything other than appear to speak: that is the only thing the data distribution makes possible.

Likewise here, the image generator has a compressed representation of PBs of pixel data which can be sampled from using text. So when you say, "Greg Rutkowski" you select for a highly structured image space, whose structure the original artists placed there.

The generative model itself is not imparting structure to the data, it isnt aware of stlyle.. it's sampling from structure that we placed there. When we did so it was because we were, eg., in the room and taking a photo; or imagining what it would be like to apply preraphelite paintaing styles to 60s psychedelic colour pallets because we sensed that fashions of a century ago would now be regarded as cool.
Point is that the simplest way to excel in next token prediction in the way human consider correct - which is rated by how people feel the predictor mimics a human understanding - is to actually have a world model and other components of human understanding.

Understanding and compression are the same thing. LLMs are fed a huge chunk of totality of human knowledge, and optimized to compress it well. They for sure aren't doing it by Huffman-encoding a multidimensional lookup table.
Alternatively: mutually assured development.
It currently offers shared hosting packages but not limited to static sites. From my research, it seems like Namecheap does allow SSH (Jailshell SSH) in their cPanel hosting package.
That figures, my new microwave somehow thinks 90 seconds is perfect for popcorn while the one I am buying requires like 3m 30s.
Cannot find in-wall options much.
I have a Garmin and didn’t realize this is how it works. Thanks!
> Great that we'll finally get state-sponsored open-source development :D

Suspicions are very old: "Report of FBI back door roils OpenBSD community" (2010)- https://www.cnet.com/news/privacy/report-of-fbi-back-door-ro...
You're spot pn on both accounts. Firefox was the one that chipped at IE initially.. remember Firefox 3 campaign and how everyone put banners for/of it on their sites? good times
So you agree that the actions of Israel do not look like genocide?

The rest of your comment is conjecture and it sounds a bit conspiratorial.
I'm bilingual, I prefer apps and websites to be in their original language of if it's one of the languages I speak, because that gets me the best experience.

There's nothing worse than apps that are badly translated with no easy way to switch them to English just because they decided that they should use the OS language.
Unicode in general doesn't like encoding arbitrary markup unless absolutely necessary. And for historical character sets the scope is limited and finite, so just using four code points is much easier than trying to specify a higher-order meaning for certain sequences of code points. Unicode also doesn't like encoding things based on hypothetical future use.
Israel blocked English version, too. So clearly they don't aggree with that content either. :)

Anyway, you know which news outlets also have local and international versions with different content? BBC, CNN, ...

Also western democracies allowed "Letter to the American People" to be published in full. Also a messaging from an active terror group with significant impact at the time, more significant than Oct 7.

So yeah, countries allow that stuff.
Article spends a lot of time comparing Traefik to HAProxy. Might just as well use HAProxy then :-)
Nah uh! We are still warring! Israel winks at Gaza, Iran squeezes the U.S.A's ass.
Yes, this is what I mean, how to get better at this etc.
>Sending rendering commands over a network is just much worse for the vast majority of applications than rendering on the source system and sending a (compressed) video stream.

The RDP protocol also sends graphics commands (mostly). It works really well on Linux with Xrdp/rdesktop. The idea of sending a video stream over network sounds good but somehow the implementations always manage to screw it up (especially on high bandwidth networks). I just did a quick test by directly streaming video over WLAN and it performed way better that VNC. I was able to stream a videogame smoothly on 30FPS, which is pretty impressive considering this was done in a very unoptimized way (netcat, TCP instead of UDP, etc.)
I mean, I think it was implied that humans judge the ‘next token prediction’ ability of LLMs as being good based on the quality of the overall output.
> Like many NLRB administrative law judges, the judge here has done nothing outside of work for the NLRB. It is no surprise that he found a violation here and it will also be no surprise when he is overturned on appeal.

Are you making the argument that his extensive experience in his profession is a bad thing?
This was such a nice primer that inspired me to give Karpathy's series another try. Loved the explanation!
The problem here is that the actual Pyou isnt a distribution over all possible words.. that's just the observer's model of what's going on -- ie., your friend supposes that you could say anything.

Actually: (1) there's very very small number of possible words you are considering; (2) you arent considering 'words' at all, but future cognitive and sensory-motor states/vocalisation actions; (3) your vocalisation is moderated by a vast array of other causes/reasons (eg., being kind); etc.

The P(next word|previous, LLM-model, corpus...) for an LLM isnt an abstraction; it's actually implemented in its training.

The only sense in which, even in an instance, we seem to compute P(next|previous) is purely a radical abstraction which has nothing to do with any property we posess, but is an epistemic artefact from the outside.
I did this with Tailscale, which I have endless problems getting to work reliably. Their documentation is a joke. The process is pretty simple: scrape, than concatenate into a large text file and submit.
This is a fork that grew from https://save-nix-together.org/.
Seems to be real. "Ann Force 1" was given to a charity in 2015.

Source: https://www.kentonline.co.uk/medway/news/amp/ann-force-one-v...
Wow, there's really a kink in the wire somewhere between you and I. :)

> I guess I knew I was taking a risk with that comment, but I was thinking more of it being low value; I didn't even consider that it might be taken this way.

> ... I was thinking more of it being low value ...

"It" being my comment; I was taking a risk because my intention with the comment was just a relatively bland observation. A low value _comment_.

Again, no digs about the article whatsoever, at all, 0.000%. You are completely misunderstanding my intention. No hard feelings at all, just want to clarify that for the record. :)

My comment was just a low value, passing observation, basically equivalent to if this article had been written by Sarah Wexler (made up name) and I had said, "Hmm, another person with the initials S.W. explaining LLMs..".
Do you believe that in a society where money is required to make an advertisement, an alternative path to advertising should be violence?

I wouldn't call that a moral high ground.
Weren't we able to do this before AI? I'm not sure I get what AI is bringing to the table/value-adding for this particular technology, except marketing hype.
When using kettlebells, I rotate the watch so the face is on the inside of my wrist thereby protecting the screen.
> Is it so hard to believe that such models have developed a sense for how light propagates through a scene...

This specifically is the thing I usually notice in AI images (outside of the hand trope).

I'm not GP, and at best a layman in the field, but it's not hard to believe it's possible to generate believable lighting, given enough training data, but if I'm not mistaken it would be through sheer volume of properties like lighting/shadow here usually follows item here.

But it's extremely inefficient, and not like we reason. It's like learning the multiplication table without understanding math. Just pairing an infinite amount of properties with each other.

We on the other hand develop a grasp of where lighting exists (sun/lamp) and surmise where shadows fall and can muster any image in our mind using that model instead.
Dont you mean Hamas numbers are a reliable cieling? Why would Hamas undersestimate the number of dead Hamas members/civilians?
You saw that words matter, what term do you prefer? I asked for that but got three paragraphs of accusation of being “pro-Palestinian” and being told that I’m misusing a word but not what the correct term is. I suspect this is at least in part due to the conflation with the question illegality in your third paragraph: use of the term is well established but there’s considerable debate over whether it was ever legal or still is.

Here, for example, note that use of the term occupied is established enough to be used in official UN documents:

https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies...

Similarly, the ICRC uses presence rather than trying to make complex judgements about the relative merits:

https://www.icrc.org/en/doc/resources/documents/misc/634kfc....
Sure, take a look at the write-up here: https://github.com/rsc/2fa and once you have it working on command line, its just a little wrapper with AutoHotKey/Typinator I guess.

The idea came from https://www.raycast.com/cjdenio/two-factor-authentication-co... which is another "almost as fast" way to do the same.
Certain topics, this is one example, draw a different crowd than other HN articles.
It does seem like artificial gravity is absolutely necessary for long-term missions...
Thanks, though that specifically why I am questioning that it is the EU in this case. Because rt.com is reachable in Sweden just fine, including sub-sites. Which, to me, says that it must be national sanctions, or at minimum, national lists of what to 'block'.
> doesn't have to be

unless you're volunteering to write the code to make it not, that's how it is
It looks like it is fixed now.
I will certainly switch when the things I use daily will work on wayland as well.
How many of those 100 journalists killed were intentionally killed because they were journalists, as opposed to dying as collateral damage?

And if foreign journalists want to get into Palestine, they have other options than entering through the Israeli border, they can enter through the Egyptian border.
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Lotus 1-2-3: https://github.com/taviso/123elf

cointop: https://github.com/cointop-sh/cointop
You have made this assertion several times but without sources. Can you provide links to examples supporting this claim?
Its generally the switching, although I wouldn't professionally sign off an undersized relay on the basis of 'it never switches, so its fine'.

The switching under load causes the contacts to get worn, then the large load causes the now-worn contacts to get hot, and the plastic supports melt and catch fire.
We have smog too here, in Poland. Or so people say. I must be immune, because I never feel like I've experienced it.

I don't think you appreciate the scale we're talking about. If you replaced all cars with horses now, we'd be quite literally drowning in horse manure. Nothing resembling modernity is possible with horses being the primary mode of transportation. Or bicycles, for that matter.

> Luckily though, this is all a false dichotomy thanks to the invention of the so-called bicycle.

Let me know when bicycles can deliver food to cities or move heavy construction equipment.

> Can you appreciate how surreal and fucked up this is, that people can just pull up somewhere in their rolling couches, pump stinky toxic shit into the air, and then they, the people who do that, get to be protected from it while pedestrians and cyclists have to breathe it all in?

Not nice, but it's just an usual case of people reinforcing the problem by trying to shield themselves from it. Tragedy of the commons.
No, but Russia is my enemy, and should be the enemy of everyone who cares about a liberal world order based on law, not might.

And in the case of RT, they had left even the pretence of journalism a long time ago. But I agree with those that say we should not have banned them. When we try to defend our liberal world order with censorship, we are certainly throwing out the baby with the bath water.
It was created by the descendants of the Romans, in the same physical location as Ancient Rome, and based on the numerous examples of letters that were still around on Roman buildings.

If that is “no connection” what exactly would a “connection” look like?
Wasn't that very basic pitch shifting only?
>When the LLM generates each word it does so because it is, on average, the most common word in a corpus of text on which it was trained:

But ChatGPT 4 follows instructions passably well. For example I just asked it: "Construct a sentence of at least 10 words each of which is extremely grammatically unlikely to follow the word before it. (For example "be are isn't had" as each of those words is impossible after the word before it.) Do not give any explanation of how you have arrived at your answer, reply only with your answer. However, as you construct it ensure that you cannot think of any context in which each next word would ever come after the word before it. Reply with your constructed nonsense sentence only."

Indeed it replied with a good nonsense sentence: "Dogs swimming beautifully reads soft under Wednesday during sky oranges" ("sky oranges" is unlikely, "under Wednesday" is nonsensical and ungrammatical) and when I complained that "dogs swimming" could be sensible as can "swimming beautifully" it came up with an even more nonsense sentence "Apples slowly would butter river quickly seven whenever blue music".

Do you think "Wednesday" is really the most likely word to follow "under" and "river" is really the most likely to follow "butter", or isn't it obvious that it was, for lack of a better word, "trying to" follow my prompt?

https://chat.openai.com/share/50037af6-0f3e-4de3-aff7-53a7b9...
You need to go back and read it again. I provide links to the relevant Espressif documents and in my next article I provide a simple example to get started. Would you rather have me copy the hundreds of pages of PDF into my blog post instead of providing a link?
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The problem seems to be that the fundamental abstractions in web (HTML and the DOM) are not suited to modern web apps. This much complexity around state management shouldn't be needed.
Midnight Commander immediately comes to mind, but also Borland's C++ compiler.
This article is clearly an oversimplification on aljazeera's side [0], which a bit also highlights a problem with their journalism. However, I guess this is harmless against some tabloids that are far from being banned.

[0] https://www.dw.com/en/israel-gaza-demonstrations-what-is-all...
I mean that the West needs to wake up and realize that we are in a war whether we like it or not. A war of ideology that the other side takes seriously and we do not
As someone who makes indie games as a passion and creative outlet, tools like these drastically expand my creative possibilities.
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It helps to bear in mind that Police & Crime Commissioners are people elected by the local population as a sort of overseer of the local police forces.

This generally ensures that they have absolutely no clue what they are doing, or qualifications for the job, and hence can be used as a scapegoat, while central government pretends it's not involved or to blame...

(And it also scuppered various plans to combine some police forces to improve efficiency, save costs etc)
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What would happen if Mr Beast launched a $BEAST token?
Thanks a lot for the answer!

I’ll give it a go when I have a wayland system
It would be nearly impossible to ignite gasoline or its fumes with a lit cigarette.
It would be helpful for projects funded by OpenSSF Omega to publish details on how they prioritized use of the funds to improve supply chain security within each project.
The setting I have on the top has nothing to do with anything on some website. With website, I want it in original language, whatever it is, especially if I know the language at least a little.

With apps, I want to pick the translation per app, again what I have set into windows has nothing to do with what I want in app.

Me setting a windows language should not cascade to any webpage. And I never ever want the automatic AI translation.
Those models were not trained on the restricted dataset i'm talking about.

I'm saying you deliberately construct a dataset which, say, does not include cups at various distances, angles, etc. but has as many as you like at a fixed range of these parameters (lens, distance, lighting, angle...).

Now, you will get, from this model, just coffee cup images with these same parameters (eg., distance from the camera).

Real-world generative systems are deliberately not constrained this way, and require many many PBs of images under various conditions to overcome this problem.

Nevertheless you can actually still see this limitation: most generated photos etc. show subjects in "photographic distance/focus/etc. conditions", ie., its hard to get a photo of a person who isnt framed as if they were teh subject of a photo.

Whereas, if you were in a room with a friend, you can take a photo at any angle/distnace.. even, say, from the top of their ears down. You will not get this freedom with a statistical model of pixel patterns
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> and b) configured using a YAML-based DSL.

Go devops HATE YAML-based DSL we just put it there cause there’s not alternatives, json ?, don’t wanna go there fortunately there’s CUE lang but moving all these project to accept cue isn’t that easy either.

> Devops guys are mostly incapable of using any service that isn't a) written in Go

Lol we basically rewrite it in Go if we’re using it frequently. Most Go projects are just things the founder really wanted for himself
I remember reading about Xerox people forecasting the smartphones and tablets. We have a picture of their brainstorming and they used small pages to model a handheld computer.
Science fiction was and still is full of more and more integrated computer with human.
Technology is driven by imagination more often than not.
You and I would think the platitudes are obvious but I've been at tables with people where stating those made people blink with that unnamed dread that hits you when you realize you haven't understood something super simple for a very long time and are just now getting it for the first time. That happened... a number of times in my life and career.

Truth is, much less things are as obvious as you and I think.

> "as simple as possible, but not simpler" is always right. Messy solution? You should have made it simpler. Primitive solution causing problems? You weren't supposed to make it too simple. Why didn't you think about making it just perfect?

Nah, that's obviously (heh) a non-sequitur; iteration always beats planning. We know it by practice.

> In reality, it's very hard to even get people to agree what is simple, when solutions have various trade-offs.

That's why you don't ask for permission, you ask for forgiveness. :) Another law of our profession, if not in many others too.
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> They need a carrot and and stick, not just a stick. [...] They need the people of Gaza to see Hamas as the source of their troubles and Israel as a source of aid.

Oh, I absolutely think Israel should've done this, both for strategic reasons and moral reasons. I think Israel should've been showing Gazans (and the world) some amazing innovations in getting aid into a warzone, proving to everyone that it cars more about Gaza's civilians than Hamas does. I think this would've been, not just the moral thing to do, but then smart thing to do.

I just don't think that not doing so means it's committing genocide. It's just undertaking a war like most countries do. War is always awful.

> It's hard thing to do. I remember listening to Jocko Willink [...] He had to explain to soldiers that their mission was to stabilize Iraq, not just to kill insurgents and survive the next patrol. Some of his soldiers died because of this. Those soldiers wouldn't have died if the US just dropped 2000 pound bombs on everything, but that wouldn't have accomplished the mission of stabilizing Iraq.

Yes, I heard this podcast (and I admire Jocko). Israel did something very similar - the first few weeks of fighting were mostly bombings, but the ~5 months after that have been a ground invasion that has gotten IDF soldiers killed (as opposed to more aerial bombardment).

That said, Israel is facing a tougher situation - Hamas is far more entrenched and very innovative in terms of their insurgent operations. You can watch videos by Preston Stewart to get a sense of the kinds of attacks Hamas is doing (a recent one is this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFeWC1svUQI). Hamas is moving around dressed as civilians and can plausibly claim to be civilians, right up until the moment they open fire. That's a very hard situation to deal with, leading to many tragic situations.

> Remember when the Israeli hostages tried to get help and surrender, they wave a white flag, they seek help, the IDF just shoots them, and later we all recognize it was a tragedy. Well, that scene has played out hundreds of other times, but hidden, Palestinians getting killed on purpose for no good reason.

Yes, there have been countless tragedies in this war. It's partially the fault of the IDF lowering the bar for shooting, it's partially the fault of Hamas operating in the way that they do (there are cases of them deliberately pretending to be civilians then ambushing soldiers).

> Other times, we see things like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhVV2_mub84

That video is utterly without context. I don't remember the exact case (I think Preston Stewart talked about it), but those could literally be armed militants walking to/away from battle. I don't know if Al Jazeera followed this up with any other information.

> These are not action that will reduce terrorism. These are not actions that will help the people of Gaza learn to live in peace.

I don't think Israel is trying to help Gaza learn to live in peace. It's trying to win a war against the Gazan government and military so it doesn't attack again.
Every country calls their enemy "undemocratic"